Method of making- gartebs



R. GORTON. METHOD OF MAKINGGARTERS. arvucmou FILED 0:50.16, 1910.

1,325,71 6.- Patented Dec. 23,1919.

Faber} Go rz on all ROBERT GORTUN, 0F BROOKLI NE, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF MAKING: GARTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

Application filed. December 16, 1918. Serial No. 267,052.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT GoR'roN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMethods of Making Garters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of gentlemens garters of theclass in which the stocking-engaging members are connected with the endsof the leg-band by claspsuspending devices secured to a pad arrangedbetween the ends of the leg-band.

This kind of garter is usually made of several pieces of difi'erentkinds of material. Usually. the body of the pad is made of materialwhich is faced and lined, and sometimes provided with an interlining.The pad has usually been given triangular shape, resulting inconsiderable waste of material. The leg-band, in this class of garters,has always, so far as my knowledge extends, been made of separatematerial, its ends being secured to the pad in various ways. ll havefound that a pad garter, of the general kind abovespecified, may be madewithout waste from a single piece of material and yet have all thecharacteristics and advantages of a pad garter of usual constructionexcept that the pad is somewhat smaller than that usu ally found ingarters of this class, the size of the pad, however, depending upon thewidth of the strip of material employed.

Tn my application for Patent No. 267,053 I have shown, described andclaimed a garter having the characteristics of thegarter hereinafterdescribed. I claim herein a novel method of making such a garter and inpractising such method I preferably proceed as follows: i

A strip of suitable material is first folded upon itself and the twofolds are secured together near the doubled or looped end of the stri bya line of stitches which is preferably disposed diagonally across thestrip. The looped end and the projecting portions are then flattened insuch manner as to produce a pad having portions of the strip projectingupwardly from its upper part to form a leg-band or portions thereof.

The clasp-suspending devices are then attached to the pad and theleg-band is equipped with the usual slide and fastening device orcast-off. Obviously, however, the strip or tape may be equipped withsuch devices before the pad is formed.

In the accompanying drawings t Figure 1 is a perspective view of agarter embodying my improvements.

Fig. 2 shows a strip of material from which the pad and leg-band orportions thereof may be formed.

Fig. 3 shows the first step of the method which consists in doubling thestrip upon itself and securing the folded strip by a di agonal lineofstitches.

Fig. 4 shows the next step where a wide loop is produced in the foldedstrip.

Fig. 5 shows how this loop is flattened.

Fig. 6 shows how the leg-band portions of the strip are flattened orbent in rear of the pad portion.

Fig. 7 is a front view of the blank in the position it assumes when bentin the manner indicated in Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 indicates the next step where the clasp-suspending devices areassociated with the pad.

Fig. 9 illustrates how the members are socured by properly arrangedlines of stitches.

In Fig. 1 A indicates the pad, 13 the legband, and C, the usual tabwhich may be considered a part of the leg-band. D indicates a clasp withstocking-engaging members of well known construction and E, thesuspending devices therefor which are at tached to the pad. F indicatesthe usual slide or takeup and Gr indicates the fastening device orcast-off.

In the form of my invention shown in the drawings, the entire pad isformed of folded portions of a strip of the same mate rial as theleg-band or portions of the legband, and the material is so folded as togive body, stifiness and strength to the pad. The rear portion of thefront of the pad is entirely coveredhy the material except at a smallpart of the bottom thereof as indi cated at 00. Other characteristics ofthe pad are more fully set forth in my companion application forpatentabove mentioned.

Fig. 2 shows a piece of suitable material, in the form of a strip, fromwhichthe legband or portions of the leg-band are formed.

Fig. 3 shows the first step in the method which consists in folding thestrip upon itself to produce a loop 1 and then securing the two membersof the folded strip together by a diagonal line of stitches as indicatedat 2.

Fig. 4 shows the looped portion of the strip opened up and then thismember of the strip is flattened as indicated in Fig. 5, to provide apad part 3 and leg-band portions at and5, these latter members beingthen flattened or bent around the rear aortion of the pad as indicatedin Fig. 6. n this way a construction of the kind shown in Fig. 7 isproduced.

Theclasp may then be associated with the pad in the manner indicated inFig. 8, the clasp-suspending devices being inserted between the folds ofthe pad in rear of the front portion thereof. After this the parts aresecured together by lines of stitches as indicated at y in Fig. 9. Thecast-off and slide may then be applied to the leg-band, or as beforestated these parts may be attached to the leg-band before the foldingoperation takes place.

There is a distinct advantage in stitching together-upon a diagonal linethe looped portion of the strip of material. By this simple operation,which is quickly and inexpensively executed, the format-ion of the padand the upwardly extending leg-band portions is definitely and entirelydetermined and the leg-band portions are firmly secured to the padportion of the strip along the line which will become the center of thepad. By thereafter simply flattening or bending the looped portion andprojecting ends of the strip the pad and the leg-band portions arecompletely formed and now only require to be secured in flattenedposition. F or these reasons this stitching step is a highlyadvantageous one and is employed in the preferred way'of practising myinvention. This step is however not absolutely essential to a practiceof my in vention,'broadly considered, which, in one of its aspects, maybe described as forming the pad and leg-band portions from a strip ofmaterial by making four diagonal folds of thestrip, i. 6.. twooppositely in clined diagonal folds where the leg-band portions join thepad and two oppositely inclined diagonal folds where the front layer ofthe pad joins the back portion thereof. Obviously these diagonal foldsmay be determined and made in other ways than in the preferred mannerherein set forth and without stitching together a looped portion ofthestrip.

While I do not consider it necessary to employ a lining or interliningfor the pad nor toapply a facing to the pad, as is usual in themanufacture of pad garters, such 1 linings and facings may be added ifdesired.

The material'employed may be of many different kinds but preferably Iuse a tubular or double-sided strip of material in order to obtain abetter finish and to facilitate in connecting parts of the leg-band.

The drawings illustrate a garter where the parts are made from stripmaterial of the same or uniform width throughout but this is notessential so far, at least, as some features of my invention areconcerned.

Obviously a garter made in accordance with my invention ma be producedmore cheaply and more quickly than heretofore and without the waste ofmaterial incident to the manufacture of other garters of this class, andyet a garter as thus produced is light, neat and well fitting and isalso comfortable, strong and durable.

I claim as my invention 1. The method of making portions of agarter,which consists in folding a strip of suitable material uponitself, securing together the two folds of the strip near one end toform a looped portion, flattening said looped portion and the projectingends of the strip to form a pad and leg-band parts, securing the partsin flattened position and securing to the pad a suitable clasp.

2. The method of making portions of a garter, which consists in bendinga strip of suitable material to form a looped portion, securing thefolds of the strip thus bent near its looped end, flattening the loopedportion and the projecting ends of the strip to produce a pad andleg-band parts, sociating a clasp with the pad, and stitching the pad tosecure the folded parts together and to fasten the clasp thereto.

3. The method of making portions of a garter, which consists in foldinga strip of suitable material upon itself, securing together the twofolds of the strip near one end by a diagonal line of stitches to form a105 looped portion of the strip, bending and flattening the end of saidstrip and said looped portion to form a pad with portions of theleg-band extending therefrom, associating a clasp with the pad, and thense- 110 curing together the folded portions of the pad, the leg-band andthe clasp to complete the garter.

4C. The method of making portions of a garter, which consists in firstconnecting two 115 layers of strip material by a diagonal line ofstitches, then folding each layer upon itself along the line of stitchesand away from the other layer to form pad parts with integral leg-bandparts.

5. The method of making portions of a garter which consists in firstconnecting two layers of strip material by a diagonal line of stitches,then folding the material to form a pad with integral leg-band portions.125 and then securing the folded portions of the pad and the leg-band toeach other by suitably arranged lines of stitches.

6. The method of making portions of a garter, which comprises makingfrom a strip 180 of material a pad with integral leg-band portionsextending oppositely therefrom by folding said strip upon itself upontwo oppositely inclined diagonal lines to form the leg-band portions andupon two other oppositely inclined diagonal lines to form the pad andsecuring the parts in their folded relation.

7. In the method of making from a strip of material parts of a garterhaving a pad with integral leg-band portions extending oppositely and atan angle therefrom, those steps which consist in folding the strip uponitself upon two oppositely inclined diagonal lines to bring the twolayers of each fold in contact with each other and thereafter stitchingthe two layers of each fold to a third layer of the strip materialjoining the two folded parts.

8. In the method of making from strip material portions of a garterhaving a pad with leg-band parts extending oppositely therefrom, thosesteps which consist of superimposing one layer of the material directlyupon another layer thereof, then stitching the two portions togetherupon a diagonal line and then forming pad and leg band portions from thematerial thus connected.

9. In the method of making from a strip of material portions of a garterhaving a pad with integral leg-band portions extend ing oppositelytherefrom, that step which consists in stitching together upon adiagonal line a looped portion of said strip previous to its beingfolded into pad form.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

ROBERT GORTON.

